Oral History Interview with Elizabeth Murphy, May 30, 1977 Page: 37
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37doctor pointed the wrong way for him and he protested; so
the doctor pointed the other way.
But the building behind the hospital was a new building
that was made for sort of a recreation building, and that
became our morgue. I tell you, everytime you went past
there for the next two or three weeks, you held your nose.
Because it really was obnoxious--the odor from that building.
But they got it cleaned up, because they had to identify all
these bodies. Some of them were without identication; dog
tags were gone. . . nothing. Finger-printing; they did teeth
. . . I don't know what they did, but they had a lot of bodies
they couldn't identify . . . just like any war. But within
a week, all the bodies were gone from there, and the building
was fumigated out. We later used that again as a recreation
building, because I remember working in there and making
Hawaiian block printing with Hawaiian flowers.
Now did you have very many corpsmen and so on working at
the hospital, too, as the casualties came in?
We had corpsmen, yes. Really, I don't remember how many
corpsmen we had on the ward I was on; there must have been
at least two of them. But somehow, I remember the Filipino
workers more. I remember my corpsmen later in months after-
wards; I had some very good ones.Marcello :
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Marcello, Ronald E. & Murphy, Elizabeth. Oral History Interview with Elizabeth Murphy, May 30, 1977, book, May 30, 1977; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc98989/m1/39/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Oral History Program.